On behalf of IWPE’16 Committee, we are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering which will take place in San Jose, CA (USA), on 25-26 May 2016, co-located with 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Details

Carmela Troncoso, Gradiant, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on the gap between theory and practice in Privacy by Design. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

Hisain Elshaafi, Waterford Institute of Technology, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on privacy best practices. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

Antonio Kung, PRIPARE Coordinator, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on privacy standards. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

On behalf of IWPE’16 Committee, we are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering which will take place in San Jose, CA (USA), on 25-26 May 2016, co-located with 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Details on the topics, organization and submission guidelines can be found at http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2016/IWPE. The abstract submission deadline has been set on 18th January 2016, and the paper submission deadline on 8th February 2016 (firm deadlines). General inquiries about the workshop can be sent to iwpe16 dot easychair dot org.

Carmela Troncoso, Gradiant, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on the gap between theory and practice in Privacy by Design. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

Hisain Elshaafi, Waterford Institute of Technology, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on privacy best practices. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

Antonio Kung, PRIPARE Coordinator, has published a new blog post on the Security Engineering Forum, focusing on privacy standards. The blog post is available at: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

PRIPARE provided a contribution to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG5 study period on privacy engineering framework on August 15th. The rapporteur of this study period is Antonio Kung, coordinator of PRIPARE. The contribution can be found here.

On 31st August – 1st September, José M. del Álamo and Carmela Troncoso will take part in a workshop on ‘Privacy by Design – Engineering Privacy’ in Pittsburgh, US. More information and the agenda for this workshop can be found here: http://cra.org/ccc/events/pbd-engineering-privacy/#overview

Nicolas Notario, from Atos, has posted a new blog entry on the Security Engineering Forum, in which he discusses the PRIPARE methodology: from risk management to engineering goals: http://www.securityengineeringforum.org/blog

The members of the PRIPARE project regret the loss of Caspar Bowden, who died on July 9, 2015. His career was dedicated to the protection of privacy since the early 1990s.

Mr. Bowden was a British privacy advocate who co-founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) in May 1998. He became its first director, earning the Winston award in 2000 for his work against the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. He served as Senior Privacy Strategist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa until 2004, and became Chief Privacy Adviser for 40 countries in 2005. In 2012, prior to the Snowden leaks, he authored the “Note on Privacy and Cloud Computing,” forewarning that the USA utilised European reliance on cloud computing services to monitor its data. The obituary in The Guardian presents many aspects of his career in more detail.

Mr. Bowden collaborated with several PRIPARE partners, in particular in previous projects such as GST FP6 on Global System for Telematics Enabling On-line Safety Services and PRECIOSA FP6 on Privacy in Intelligent Transport Systems. We are grateful for his insightful remarks.

The PRIPARE project has formed a collaboration with Doty et al. in relation to our catalogue of privacy patterns. Doty and the PRIPARE project maintain collaborative platforms for the collection of privacy patterns at http://privacypatterns.org, and http://privacypatterns.eu respectively. One of the next steps is to align the pattern templates, and in the long run to potentially combine the two platforms to offer the software-design community a central repository to discuss and develop privacy patterns.

With this action PRIPARE intends to support privacy awareness and contribute to the adoption of privacy-by-design methodologies.